Records Series

Our flagship list, consisting of indexed transcripts or indexes to important Surrey sources, indexed by person, place and subject. Also some records are available on CD.

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RS 10. Return of Owners of Land 1873 - Surrey

This unusual publication lists, in alphabetical order, all persons who owned more than one acre of land in Surrey (excluding the Metropolis), with their addresses (not necessarily in Surrey (excluding the Metropolis), with their addresses (not necessarily in Surrey), and the amount of land owned. Reprinted from the 1873 Parliamentary Paper, with an introduction by Cliff Webb (1989). 64 pages....

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RS 11. Surrey Quaker Obituaries 1813-1892 in the 'Annual Monitor'

In 1894 was published a list of those people whose obituaries were printed in the Annual Monitor. Cliff Webb has extracted those references where the person's residence was in the ancient county of Surrey. 16 pages....

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RS 12. Calendar of Miscellaneous Elizabethan Lay Subsidies - Surrey 1570-1600

Transcribed by Cliff Webb. Lay Subsidies were the main tax laid on people prior to the Civil War. Their records in the period from, roughly, 1524 to the 1640's, list, with varying degrees of fullness, the inhabitants of the area, with some gauge as to their wealth. (79 pages)...

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RS 13. Return of Owners of Land 1873 - Middlesex

Reprinted from the 1873 Parliamentary Paper, with an introduction by Cliff Webb (1991). 44 pages....

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RS 15. Surrey Poll Book Index - 1775

(with microfiche facsimile of the original book). Poll books are an invaluable source for the better-off section of the community. 28 pages plus 1 microfiche. 28 pages + 1 fiche....

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RS 22. Surrey Feet Of Fines 1649-1684

See also SPECIAL OFFER page.Compiled by Cliff Webb (1997). 72 pages....

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RS 24. Surrey Feet Of Fines 1714-1760

See also SPECIAL OFFER page.Compiled by Cliff Webb (1997). 92 pages....

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RS 26. Surrey Feet Of Fines 1603-1648

See Also SPECIAL OFFER page.Compiled by Cliff Webb (1998). 68 pages....

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RS 27. Surrey Cases and Depositions in the Courts of Chancery 1714-1758 & Exchequer 1497-1603

See also SPECIAL OFFER page. Contains an alphabetical list of plaintiffs, defendants and deponents (with age and place of residence) and indexes of places and occupations. 36 pages....

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RS 28. Surrey Feet of Fines 1558-1602

See Also SPECIAL OFFER page.Feet of Fines record the transfer of land and are an invaluable source. The records are arranged by place and listed chronologically, and then indexed by name. Compiled by Cliff Webb (1998). 52 pages....

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RS 29. Surrey Cases and Depositions in the Court of Requests c1500-1624

See also SPECIAL OFFER page. The Court of Requests was established as the 'court of the poor man', and was intended to hear cases which were too trivial to go to the other courts. It is first mentioned in 1483, and seems to have evolved from an informal committee of the King's Council. It continued to sit until 1642, but was not revived after the Restoration. Compiled by Cliff Webb (1999). 100...

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RS 31. Calendar of Late Elizabethan & Stuart Lay Subsidies. 1593-1641

RS 31. Lay Subsidies - Late Elizabethan And Stuart

See also SPECIAL OFFER page. Central and South-Eastern Surrey 1593-1641, compiled and indexed by Cliff Webb. A further volume in the Record Series to deal with Lay Subsidies. It covers the Hundreds of: Kingston, Elmbridge, Copthorne, Effingham, Reigate, Tandridge and Wallington 72 pages....

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RS 32. Surrey Cases In The Court Of Star Chamber

This list contains cases of apparent non-Metropolitan Surrey interest. The periods covered are 1485-1558 and 1603-1641. Abstracted by Cliff Webb (1999). 16 pages. See also SPECIAL OFFER page....

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RS 33. Surrey Apprentices vol. 3

An index of Apprentices of Surrey interest in some London Livery Company records 1563-1928. Many Surrey boys (and a few girls) were sent up to London to be apprenticed. This work abstracts records of Surrey interest (excluding the Metropolitan area) from a number of London Livery Company records. Includes a List of Company, Indexes of Apprentices, Masters, Places and Subjects. Edited by Cliff Webb...

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RS 34. Surrey Cases in the Court of Chancery 1391-1714 - A guide and handlist

See also SPECIAL OFFER page. The object of this work has been to collect (as far as possible with the present finding aids) all pre-1714 cases of Surrey interest (outside the Metropolitan area) in the Court of Chancery. Compiled and indexed by Cliff Webb (2000). 180 pages....

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RS 35. Early Woking Families before 1700

Lists of families resident in the Parish of St Peter, Woking compiled from parish registers, wills and other records held at Surrey History Centre and elsewhere. Compiled by Philip Arnold (2000). 62 pages....

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RS 36. Early Woking Buildings

With particulars, where known, of their occupants, taken from Censuses 1841 to 1891 and Parish Registers. Compiled by Philip Arnold (2001). 68 pages....

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RS 37. Calendar of Surrey Lay Subsidies - 1543-1547

See Also SPECIAL OFFER page. Lay Subsidies were the main tax laid on people prior to the Civil War. Their records in the period from, roughly, 1524 to the 1640's, list, with varying degrees of fullness, the inhabitants of the area, with some gauge as to their wealth. Transcribed and Indexed by Cliff Webb (2002). 72 pages....

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RS 38. Surrey Deeds in the Public Record Office - c1100-1800

Lists of deeds relating to Non-Metropolitan Surrey places with an index of the names included therein. Transcribed and Indexed by Cliff Webb (2002). 92 pages....

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RS 39. Calendar of Surrey Lay Subsidies - Miscellaneous 1549-1561

See Also SPECIAL OFFER page. Transcribed and Indexed by Cliff Webb (2002). 72 pages....

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RS 41 City of London Settlement Examinations

Volume I - St Botolph Aldgate abstracted and indexed by Cliff Webb, who writes in the introduction: "St Botolph Aldgate is a large but poor parish with a highly transient population. There are only a few Huguenots in the records but quite a few Jewish people, Irish, Scots and other early immigrants. For civil purposes St Botolph was divided into two parts, each with separate civil jurisdiction. Th...

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